Kickended by Silvio Lorusso is online database artwork archiving the Kickstarted campaigns that got not even a single penny. This competitive aesthetics of failure has been able to attract the attention of major national newspapers (from the British “The Guardian” to the Italian “Corriere della Sera”).

Graphic Constellations: Visual Poetry and the Properties of Space, it’s an exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the First International Exhibition of Concrete, Kinetic and Phonic Poetry held in Cambridge in late 1964. Curated by Bronac Ferran and Will Hill at the Ruskin Gallery in Cambridge, UK (Image: ‘Poemkon=D=4=Open=Apollinaire’).

The Pirate Bay computers and servers have been seized by Swedish Police on a data center in Nacka (Greater Stockholm). It’s offline since December 9. http://torrentfreak.com/swedish-police-raid-the-pirate-bay-site-offline-141209/

“Art Post-Internet” was an exhibition curated by Karen Archey and Robin Peckham for the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing in spring 2014. This is the specially designed pdf catalogue whose with the front page is created each time with the IP and quite approximated location of the user. It includes tentatively definition of “post-internet” by Cory Arcangel, Simon Denny, and Bunny Rogers, art critics Ben Davis and Paddy Johnson, academics Mark Tribe and Esther Choi, and museum professionals Christiane Paul, Raffael Dörig, Jamillah James, Ben Vickers, Omar Kholeif and Gene McHugh.

Matt Brailsford used a modified old tape player as interface to this Raspberry Pi + Spotify Media Server, so listener can use the player (and the cassettes) as physical interface to the different playlists.

Love Songs, mashup visualized

Mashup has been one of the innovative techniques to take over the massive pop productions, breaking the borders established by the industry around every song released. “Love Songs” by Chris Han is an online “compilation of songs with ‘love’ in the title” where the flow of sounds is accompanied by the flow of the sequencing interface. It may seem banal, but the real time visualization implies that the sequencer becomes the mix’s visual. Moreover, it’s possible to “read” every passage, guessing where every sound is placed (and in which channel) and when it starts or ends. The entire structure is then “nude” and can be followed instant by instant, noticing how a voice or a drum pattern has been extracted and inserted in a perfectly organized compilation. Made with Ableton Live, the work was not a matter of minutes, but an effort that lasts many hours, in turn creating a consensus of effort from all over the internet, raising appreciation and questions. It’s a real kinaesthetic experience, totally functional and aesthetic.